Jackson honored; And what do British beer writers drink?

The British Guild of Beer Writers has renamed its Beer Writer of the Year Award the Michael Jackson Gold Tankard Award, in honor of the world’s greatest beer writer, who died two years ago.

The announcement was made at a guild gathering on the eve of the Great British Beer Festival. To celebrate the guild’s 21st birthday 21 beers were selected by some of the country’s leading beer writers and brewers. A fun list to look at.

Anchor Steam, Anchor Brewing
Explorer, Adnams
Brain’s Dark, Brains
Brakspear Triple, Brakspear
Chiswick Bitter, Fuller’s
India Pale Ale, Meantime
Landlord, Timothy Taylor
Liquid Sunshine,St Austell’s
London Porter, Meantime
London Pride, Fuller’s
Pedigree, Marston’s
Red Shield, White Shield Brewery
Ridgeway IPA, Ridgeway Brewery
Rivet Catcher, Jarrow Brewery
Russian Imperial Stout, Harvey’s
SA Gold, Brains
Scapa Special, Highland Brewery
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Sierra Nevada Brewing
Spitfire, Shepherd Neame
Summer Lightning, Hop Back
Victory Ale, Bateman

 

5 thoughts on “Jackson honored; And what do British beer writers drink?”

  1. Okay, I’ll say it — very nice lineup. Were they really all on cask? Anchor Steam & SN Pale Ale on cask, that I’d like to try! I can already attest to the goodness of the Summer Lightning from cask.

  2. Yep, a solid list there. In reference to the above, here in Leeds we can get both SNPA and Anchor Steam on cask on a regular basis, but not much else in terms of US Brews. Maybe tha’ts why they sit so high, despite being ‘touchstone’ brews. Taylor’s, Brain’s, Hopback and Fuller’s Chiswick are pretty much staples, I reckon!!

  3. Well, I’ve never seen an Anchor beer on cask over here (US Midwest), let alone the Steam, but plenty of locals. And we rarely get the UK beers on cask, so I imagine you can chalk that up to poor travel survival — either direction across the sea.

  4. from what I remember of the night (all a bit hazy) we had four beers on cask (landlord, Red Shield, er, can’t remember the other two), all of them British, everything else was in bottle; I have seen Anchor in cask in London quite often, courtesy of James Clay I think in Yorkshire, keep trying to persuade the landlord of my local to get Steam or Pale Ale in on keg.

  5. “I have seen Anchor in cask in London quite often”

    I need to bend the ear of the beer guys at my local good beer bar, I’d love to try either of those in Cc form.

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